Comments for April Showers Preparedness

Comment on Contacting me by Kathleen O'Meal

Kathleen O'Meal — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:54:05 +0000

Hi,

We love your site.

We are having a difficult time accessing wholesale peas in the East. Our farmers are growing other things at present. I can get all of the crimson clover and alfalfa I want at 3.25/lb. I get wholesale direct dried beans of many types….but no peas.

Would you mind sharing your wholesale whole pea source?

THanks,
Kathy OMeal
Stake Preparedness Leader Palmyra NY Stake

Comment on Contacting me by Kathleen O'Meal

Kathleen O'Meal — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:31:50 +0000

Hi,
This is a nice site. I am chairperson of EPAC (560,000 families in North America). Over 75% of our folks have a year supply of food storage or more now….so we have been at it for awhile.
I couldn’t help but notice your information on pandemic flu preparedness. Here is another idea you all might like to have. Disposables of any kind run out quickly! Children through adult, who have dysentery symptoms will go through a lot of bed protectors and diapers. It really is best to have reusable infant through adult size reusable diapers on hand. It is really important to have good solid reuable bed protectors, like seen in hospitals. These are very expensive, but there are some companies on ebay who are selling some terrific products right now.
About 1000 families took part in a mockup pandemic scenario recently. These were items everyone reported were absolutely neccessary inorder to take care of sick family members.
Sterilizing these for reuse by others was worked out by using good infectious disease principles.
We learned it is important to practice ahead of time at home. Even things which seem so simple, like repositioning a person in bed, cleaning up an adult, giving bed baths and so on was challenging at first if one didnt know what to do.

And, people do run out of disposable toilet paper during real disasters. After talking with folks in countries where these things are not available, we learned we need reuable toilet rags, spray bottles (which can be used like a European Bedet…just squirt yourself from front to back until clean and yes, it does work perfectly on the backside), etc… Sewage will be a huge problem as evidenced during Katrina Disaster…..Some of our folks have built very cute and arsty looking outhouses in their lawns. These are used for things like storing garden tools now, but are actually working outhouses. Some families built little storage cabinets for slack lime and disinfectants. Those not using outhouses have adopted the method of draining water from toilets which are already sturdy, and using plastic garbage bags in the bowl held down with the toilet seats. There are a lot of different porta pottie types it seems.

One hygiene idea we all find a real help is to be sure and have good heavy plastic sheeting. We can scoop out a bath tub on a slope, with easy to drain down the side and then use solar parabolic shields to heat water direct or to heat large stones to warm the water. We are really liking using parabolic solar heating more and more. Sunoven is great adn we like it, but when understood and practiced using a more focused ray, although dangerous, can be used, even when there are alot of people in need.

We are all really concerned about large scale hygiene.

2 years ago I was in Englewood NJ, 5 minutes from Geaorge Washington bridge when a moderate thunderstorm knowcked out the primary adn backup filtration systems for Nassau and Bergen County. There was no clean water for 9 days in upper 90 F weather. I could not believe how fast things got out of control. DOH yellow taped off all public facilities which had a drinking fountain/bathroom, all fo the produce departments were off limits..hospitals yellow coded on to other facilities…it was a nightmare….there was no water being brought in either…

I wish RS would offer classes in home care in Enrichment meetings.

Comment on Our Relief Society by katie

katie — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:47:49 +0000

Thank you for that. I am also a Relief Society member, and try to find ways to make our home better so my children can help others and feel compassion. I am also a quilter. How wonderful to know of the love that goes into each quilt and the joy it can bring to so many.

Comment on Contacting me by Lisa Hunt

Lisa Hunt — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:48:39 +0000

April, I would love to be on your email list Also, is it too late to order your Shirley J products? Thank you for your site. What an amazing service you are providing for us all THANK YOU.

Comment on About Me by April Widmer

April Widmer — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:59:22 +0000

The soap is $1.10, the borax is $4.00 the soap is $3.00.Great story JAyna. Thanks for sharing.
April :=)

Comment on Sprout Cookie by Lynn C.

Lynn C. — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:36:05 +0000

Thank you SO much for all the sprouting information! This is awesome!

Comment on About Me by Jayna

Jayna — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:58:24 +0000

We survived the 2 weeks of living on our food storage. I did go to the store to buy in ingredients for laundry
soap, not because I needed it but because I wanted to try it. I made a 5 gal. bucket and put it by my washing
machine. My son has oily hair and his pillow case only come clean if I prespot it. So now I just dip it in my
5 gal. bucket and make sure it is totally covered with the Fels Naptha gel and then squeeze out the excess,
put it in the washing machine with other clothes and about 3/4 of a cup from the 5 gal bucket ( I never got
around to diluting it to make 10 gallons) and it comes out clean. No more expensive laundry cleaners.
I also have a brush in the 5 gal bucket and sometimes just spot something by dipping the brush and brushing
the gel into the spot, it took carrots stains out of a crib sheet. I’ve never seen your prices for the soap,
washing soda or borax, maybe I’m not spending enought time looking.

Comment on Neem Bulk Order by Lynn C.

Lynn C. — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:09:32 +0000

Please post the notes from your sprouting class to this blog! I would LOVE to know more about sprouting. Thanks!

Comment on April’s Group Buys (The month) by Linda Smith

Linda Smith — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:08:31 +0000

April,
Will you please add me to your e-mail list? Thanks so much.
Where will the sprout class be held?

Comment on About Me by Jayna

Jayna — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:27:44 +0000

You are AWESOME, (Cindy’s favorite word, she is home from her mission) you never cease to amaze
me with what you learn, share and accomplish. May our Heavenly Father’s Choicest Blessings Be Yours,
you really are amazing (her other favorite word). You’re like a pot running over with joy and enthusiasm for everything, I smile just thinking of you, and consider myself blessed to know you. Congratulations on the grandchild, Jenn’s providing our 2nd in Aug. Yesterday our Bishop challenged us to not go to the grocery
store for 2 weeks, now I’ve got to use my food storage, I bought food for the family open house for Cindy
and planned on going today to buy for the week. This will be an interesting 2 weeks with no fresh produce,
to early for stuff from the garden. At least we still have running water, gas and electricity, I should be more prepared than I am since I’ve lived on it before for a lot longer. This will help me organize my recipes and
evaluate what I need.